No Mask, No Problem
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FTVLive has been telling you how Nexstar’s KTLA has been ignoring the CDC and the State of California guidelines when it comes to dealing with COVID-19.
That is especially true when it comes to the cast of KTLA’s new entertainment show LA unscripted.
The hosts have appeared to completely ignore both the CDC and the State of California when it comes to the coronavirus.
After FTVLive pointed this out in a Patron Only story, KTLA News Director Jason Ball followed up with an email to the staff, restating the station’s policy’s on the Rona.
But, insiders say that the memo was more about covering the station’s ass than anything else. Ball’s memo pointed to the policy laid out by KTLA GM Janene Drafs.
FTVLive has a copy of Drafs’ memo and it says in part.
Additionally, we are implementing some guidelines when it comes to vacations and time away from the station.
If you have plans to travel to a “hot spot” location for your vacation, we ask that you take all the CDC precautions to protect yourself while traveling, including practicing good sanitation and hygiene, maintaining social distance whenever possible, and utilizing face coverings. As an additional safety measure, if you travel to a “hot spot” we ask that you get a COVID-19 test with a negative result before returning to the building or engaging with another employee in person for work. This applies to those individuals who report to the station daily and/or occasionally and have visited a “hot spot” location or had close contact (spending 15 minutes or more within 6 feet) with a COVID-19 positive person. While we can’t prohibit staff personal travel to known “hot spots”, we do ask you to consider any travel risks as much as possible; not just for yourself and your family, but for the well-being of the other KTLA staff members. If you have any individual concerns, please chat with your Supervisor before leaving on vacation to evaluate any potential risk and to determine when it’s safely time to return to the station.
KTLA Weather Anchor and LA Unscripted host Liberte Chan just spent a week in Miami, Florida.
In case you have been living under a rock, Miami has been a COVID hot spot for months and it would make sense that Chan would be asked to quarantine and get a COVID test before returning to the station.
One station insider said that did not happen.
“Management didn't make Liberte take COVID test and was back at work today,” the staffer said to FTVLive, “Claims in the email that they'd require a COVID test before back at work. How do we trust and take them seriously when they don't follow their own supposed rules,” the staffer added.
You would hope that this LA station would do better and lead by example, clearly, that is not happening and it is putting the health of other their employees in danger.
